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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Girl
Men
Love
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Woman

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I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away? There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life
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